July 2, 2008

Securing Rice

These fellas are securing a JICA agriculture project in the middle of Jalalabad. The JICA Agriculture specialists are working to develop a strain of rice that has up to 70% more yield than the rice currently grown in the region. We had a chance to visit their experimental farms, row after row of dark green rice plants. The water that runs through most of the canal-like waterways in town is well, not exactly the cleanest, so the Japanese got permission to dig a 35-foot well for their farm.